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Treasure the Ones You Love

Loss is all around. Loss of family, loss of companionship, loss of relationships. There seems to be a veritable epidemic of loss in those around me. Which only serves to remind us all just how fragile life is and how much we take for granted.

One day everything is going along normally, as expected. The next day everything is upside down and your heart is in your throat and you feel a pain that has been unfamiliar to you as you went about the routine that has been your daily, uneventful life.

Life changes in an instant: death, disease, accidents, divorce, and unexplained endings. You don’t prepare for these things, they just happen, generally suddenly and unannounced, like a thief in the night. They steal your joy. Your sense of normalcy. Your sense that “everything is all right.” They leave you feeling vulnerable, having to pick up the pieces, change your plans, find a new road.

These things happen to everyone at some point. Everyone is blindsided by something or someone at some point in their lives, by some tragedy they didn’t see coming. Which brings me again to my point: treasure the ones you love. You don’t know how long they will be alive, or how long they will be in your life.

Appreciate each day with them as if it is your last. Because you won’t know when that last day is until after you’ve had it.